Monthly Archive for November, 2009

: November, 2009

UPDATE: Sony said this morning it sold 440,000 PlayStation 3s last week, a record for the console. And Microsoft told Venturebeat that it sold twice as many Xbox 360s over Thanksgiving week compared to the week before. …

Despite Apple’s small computer market share in the U.S., (9.4 percent) its share of retail revenue was nearly 50 percent for desktop PCs and 33 percent for notebooks, according to Joe Wilcox of Betanews. …

With people across the United States gathering to celebrate Thanksgiving, there’s a topical game-style application making the rounds on Facebook that let you host a virtual holiday dinner to raise real-world funds for the United Nations World Food Programme. …

Confronted with the return of an offensive image of First Lady Michelle Obama to the top of its image search engine, Google is now using some of its own ad space to offer an explanation on how its results are determined. …

Apple’s senior vice-president for worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller defended Apple’s app store approval process, which has gotten dinged by developers who find it too opaque, occasionally leading to seemingly arbitrary rejections or apps landing in limbo land with no word on their progress. …